Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-22

/
his residence on the east side of town.
Mrs. Livingston and son, from
near Albert, were In town this morn
ing.
Dan Bird, of Clarence township, is
the happy father of twelve pound
boy.
J. B. and J. j. Fredericks, OF
Cleveland township, were in the city
Sunday.
Lots of coal is hauled out of Great
Bend every day, from the east, west,
north and south.
Tony Long, of Beaver, was in the
city Tuesday; paying taxes and trans
acting other business.
DIR. Royce, D. G. Luse and A. E..
Rowell had the champion wolf dogs
of the round up Saturday.
H. Wenke, of Logan township,
was in the city Saturday, paying his
taxes and shaking hands with old
friends.
Mrs. Joel Miller, of Pawnee Rock,
was in Great Bend Friday visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Miller, at the
Valley House.
D. r. Jones has returned from Clar.
ence. While there he "tripped the
light fantastic" at dance held at the
home of Ed Kline.
Mrs. C. C. Baily, of Newton, has
arrived to visit her daughter, Mrs. j.
+. Winterburg. Mrs. Winterburg's
youngest sister also arrived.
Bro. Voigt, of the Ellinwood Es-
press, was in attendance upon the
Labor Union meeting Saturday and
took an active part in the meeting.
Charlie Wilkerson was in from
Eureka township Saturday night, to
practice with the band, for the open
air concert, Friday night, prior to the
ball.
Miss Rate Bowers, who is teaching
near Webb P. O., this county, was a
caller at this office Saturday, accom-
panied by Miss Edith Carr, of Hois-
ingtOn.
Prof. Tom Reynolds, of the Hois-
ington schools, came down last Satur
day. He reports everything in a flour
ishing condition in and around our
northern neighbor.
County Superintendent Wolfe has
received the classification registers
which will be furnished to the school
districts of this county, free of charge,
to teachers who may call for them.
Farmer George Featherly, of near
Ellinwood, was in the city Saturday
in attendance upon the Labor Union
meeting. MIR. Featherly delivered
very interesting address before the
meeting.
Talk about weather! Just look on
the streets and see the boys running
around barefoot in December and then
write to your friends in the east about
the hard winter we are having in
Kansas.
George Roberts came in Sunday
morning from Texas, where he has
been painting depots on one of the
Santa Fe branches for nearly a We ar.
During his absence Great Bend has
changed so that he hardly recognized
Main st rect.
Thomas McHugh, late of Kansas
City, stopped off Friday on his way
to Sheridan Lake, Col, overland.
He was greatly surprised to see as
good town here as ne found, and
predicts bright future for Great
Bend.
Charlie Williams was up from
Hutchinson Sunday, having with him
specimens of rock salt from the Hutch
inson salt wells. He says money
matters are little quiet down there,
but people are hopeful of an improve
ment in the spring.
Col. w. E. Huffman and son.
Henry, were up from Ellinwood Sat-
urday paying taxes. Col. Huffman
says his taxes are considerably less
than they were last year. He is bal
ing great quantity of hay this
winter, and finds good market for it..
The Canon City coal people have
made an apportionment of the amount
each town is to get each week during
the present season. Great Bend is to
get eight car loads per week, Larned
SIX, etc. Our coal men are also ad-
vised to buy. all the other coal they
can also.